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Author: mechp on April 01 2007 Viewed 4437 times. 34 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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Today, as my girlfriend and I drove to meet a friend for breakfast, I spotted a Coin-Op Arcade cabinet with a sign on it from the car. I shrieked like a little girl and wailed "There was a free arcade game back there!" to which Katie responded "No way." Well, after a little coaxing we turned around and sure enough, Mortal Kombat 3 sat on the curb with a free sign on it a mere two and a half blocks from her house. I promptly decided we couldn't wait and rolled (luckily it has wheels on it) the 300+ lb thing to her house.
As of now, with roughly 10 minutes of tinkering/research in I have been able to power the cabinet up, and get an audio cue (just "Bloop" when you turn it on), but no pictures or game sounds yet. I found out it's a JAMMA board, meaning it's easily swappable with other games, so....bonus.
I am really excited about having my own coin op. Seriously, every little kid from the 80s' dream.
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Yeah, Katie and I felt it necessary to toast the game. We has nerdom. | |
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04/01/07
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astroid
haha that pic is a keepar!
04/02/07
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cartesia
thats so awesome *envy*
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j_chot
that's totally better than my 1$ mixer I bought on ebay.
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yghartsyrt
lol.
that's class.
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breakscience
cheers! ;)
if you get that thing going..oh ho ho man! mk3 rox!
04/02/07
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EsromCole
ULTIMATE MORTAL FRIGGIN KOMBAT FRIGGIN 3 DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE!!!!!!!!! Lucky bastard.
04/02/07
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sAMsKi
nice nice. we chipped in at uni to buy that very same game, it stayed in the corrider of our halls all first year 
04/02/07
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jdg
i still wish you had braces
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zfigz
top shelf my friend...that's an epic find.
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Tenine
Fuck yeah!
That's ace, well done!
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quicks
awesome, awesome find!
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INKEYstrng
of all games, the best one ever. I once dominated in an mk3 ultimate competition.
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INKEYstrng
it was embarrassing.
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Tripnik
wow! My friend from high school got one, and wired it up so it interfaced with his pc. He hid the computer in the lower part of the cabinet, and was able to play any game he had on mame. He even made it so when you pressed the coin return button, it would add a token. Anyway, geeks everywhere envy you my friend.
edited: Apr 02 2007
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KidQuaalude
nice find!
yeah, if your jamma board is dead you could pick up a cheap pc and a JPAC then you can get 1000s of arcade games running using MAME on your MK3 cab. luckily, being an MK3 your cab has plenty of buttons so it'll run pretty much everything with a bit of configuration.
may be worth finding out if its your MK3 PCB or the monitor thats dead tho...
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